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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

by Charlotte Brontë

59,391 members

924 reviews

4.2

13 Members: worcester, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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24,230 members

379 reviews

4

9 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, FranzK72

3

Pride and Prejudice

81,227 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

10 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Dante Alighieri

24,126 members

213 reviews

4.1

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, AmourFou, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Mary Shelley

42,971 members

714 reviews

3.8

11 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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by George Eliot

17,832 members

331 reviews

4.2

9 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

7

53,501 members

477 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, mspixieears, FranzK72

8

by George Orwell

82,464 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

8 Members: roby72, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

34,354 members

439 reviews

3.8

8 Members: roby72, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, TheTowers, ManWithAnAgenda, adamspaminator

10

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,196 members

774 reviews

3.9

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, adamspaminator

11

by Raymond Chandler

10,348 members

285 reviews

4

10 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, TheTowers, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

12

40,261 members

387 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, mspixieears, FranzK72

13

by Gustave Flaubert

26,357 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72

14

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,781 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,132 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

10 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

16

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,107 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

17

14,014 members

113 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,867 members

616 reviews

4.2

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,774 members

193 reviews

3.9

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by León Tolstói

29,053 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FranzK72

21

by Saint Augustine

22,612 members

163 reviews

3.9

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, kara.shamy, mspixieears, FranzK72

22

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,634 members

699 reviews

4.2

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72

23

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,868 members

338 reviews

4.1

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Time Machine

17,825 members

341 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: roby72, cej1027, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,252 members

199 reviews

3.9

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers

26

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,920 members

46 reviews

½ 4.5

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72

27

The Portrait of a Lady

10,803 members

125 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

28

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

19,283 members

248 reviews

3.8

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72

29

A Study in Scarlet / The Sign of Four / The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

3,571 members

20 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: roby72, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers, ManWithAnAgenda

30

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,164 members

282 reviews

4.1

6 Members: roby72, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger

31

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

46,113 members

769 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

32

by Boris Pasternak

11,495 members

152 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72

33

Winnie-the-Pooh

13,582 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

34

On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,436 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

35

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,366 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72

36

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,518 members

87 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72

37

The Waste Land and Other Poems

4,584 members

33 reviews

4.2

5 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

38,991 members

724 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

39

by Toni Morrison

23,020 members

409 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, ahef1963, kara.shamy, TheTowers, ManWithAnAgenda

40

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

19,066 members

186 reviews

3.9

5 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, TheTowers

41

The Murders in the Rue Morgue [short story]

by Edgar Allan Poe

730 members

23 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: roby72, kara.shamy, mspixieears, TheTowers, ManWithAnAgenda

42

Survival In Auschwitz

2,257 members

25 reviews

4.2

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72

43

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

23,953 members

330 reviews

4.1

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

17,285 members

424 reviews

4.1

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, TheTowers

45

On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

14,450 members

120 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy

46

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, volume I: The Process of Capitalist Production

2,834 members

29 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72

47

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,429 members

476 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

48

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,643 members

452 reviews

½ 4.5

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

49

by Thomas Hobbes

8,299 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

50

by William Shakespeare

8,694 members

69 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

51

10,132 members

85 reviews

4.1

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

52

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

134,642 members

2,065 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears,ManWithAnAgenda

53

by William Gibson

23,151 members

380 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

54

by Robert Graves

9,221 members

168 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger

55

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

18,559 members

255 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Return of the King

by J. R. R. Tolkien

47,100 members

285 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

57

by Isaac Asimov

20,692 members

392 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

58

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

by Richard Bach

11,656 members

212 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

59

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

13,418 members

209 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Railway Children

5,947 members

77 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mkbird, ahef1963

61

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

4,939 members

107 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

62

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

by William Blake

4,070 members

38 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger

63

His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

14,285 members

202 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

64

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

7,139 members

51 reviews

3.9

3 Members: kara.shamy, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press)

by Helen Vendler

93 members

1 review

4

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, mspixieears

66

Swallows and Amazons

by Arthur Ransome

3,902 members

84 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, TheTowers

67

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

9,193 members

280 reviews

3.9

2 Members: FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

68

The Human Stain

6,598 members

97 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, FranzK72

69

The Life of Samuel Johnson

by James Boswell

3,923 members

42 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Thomas Paine

2,359 members

14 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

71

by William Wordsworth

355 members

1 review

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

72

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

by Elizabeth Gaskell

1,498 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

by Carl von Clausewitz

2,919 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

74

A Child Called "It"

8,512 members

305 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

75

A Rabbit Omnibus

381 members

3 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

76

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

by John le Carré

8,502 members

232 reviews

4

Member: FlorianKarpfinger

77

The Ballad of Peckham Rye

by Muriel Spark

740 members

21 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

78

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

by Siegfried Sassoon

727 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

79

The Sword of Honour Trilogy

by Evelyn Waugh

1,107 members

18 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

80

The Alexander Trilogy

by Mary Renault

303 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

81

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig

18,875 members

288 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

82

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

15,713 members

334 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

83

Collected Poems

537 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: mspixieears

84

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire {abridged by Mueller}

by Edward Gibbon

1,204 members

8 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Eminent Victorians

by Lytton Strachey

1,780 members

32 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Twelve Caesars

6,511 members

73 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,929 members

59 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

88

The Iliad / The Odyssey

5,865 members

50 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham

7,512 members

207 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

90

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,551 members

443 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: roby72

91

A Year in Provence

5,570 members

111 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

92

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,821 members

34 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

93

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

3,362 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

94

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

by Simon Schama

3,133 members

36 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

95

by Thomas Harris

10,100 members

103 reviews

3.8

96

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography

by Robert Graves

3,716 members

65 reviews

4

97

A History of the Crusades [3-volume set]

by Steven Runciman

732 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

98

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

65 members

½ 4.7

99

The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant

by Jean de Brunhoff

3,120 members

40 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963,kara.shamy

100

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

by Malcolm Gladwell

21,870 members

332 reviews

3.8

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